The Island awaits you......

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2011)

In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta are best friends in a repressive and intriguing society, where everybody expects to win the lottery.
The prize is to move to a paradisaical island outside the domes that protect the dwellers against the contaminated environment.
Jordan wins the lottery, and Lincoln accidentally finds the scary truth behind the Utopian award: they are clones, generated to provide replacement organs and parts to the owners of insurance policy......
Michael Bays only real flop, is ironic in many ways, mostly because this is one of the best films he has ever made. along with 'The Rock', this actually has a feasible story and narrative (even though it's heavily borrowed from Logan's run), and the traditional big bangs and flashy editing do not hinder the film (hello Transformers).
The whole film is edited in the bay fashion, and its exciting from start to finish. The cast for a film of this genre, is quite classy, with the exception of Johansson, who goes to show that she is just a pretty face and nothing more.
McGregor is as reliable as ever, but struggles with a dodgy accent, and thanks to Star Wars, he manages to hold a big budget movie on his own.
As expected, Bay delivers some spectacular set pieces, the best being the freeway chase, it's beautiful to look at, and fluid in a way that would make John Woo proud.
There are plot holes, but really, when you have one of the most freshest and entertaining summer films released in 2005 (I personally think it failed because of the amount of familiar movies released that year, Batman, War of the worlds, Charlie and the chocolate factory), it doesn't matter, because this is a summer movie and guilty pleasure of the highest order.